Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-06

Deen discovered at WeStVIlle, near P1ct0u
N. s, one eight feet and the other ten fee
thick. The output Of coal from this dis
trlct Is rapidly increasing, a great deal o.
the coal going to Montreal. Three large
steam colliers are plying in this trade.
The demand for more and better coke
Ia the irsn regions in the south will be
more pressing next year than ever. Nc
less than six stacks will be ready 10 60 in
blast within the next six months that have
no reasonable chance, as the outlook now
IL, to secure enough tuel.-TRe IrddeSmdH.
At Cleveland, Ia, the coal is very low
where the shaft liz sunk, but it is said that
that there Is plenty Of good coal around il.
The company is sparing no expense 10
make it a model shaft. The price of min
ing advanced 10 cents per ton on the first
of this month; that makes s. cents per
ton. Entry. per yard, 81. 25; drivers, 81 10
per day; trappers, 10 cents per DAY, and all
other work in proportion.
The Ridgway Burton Company is about
to open q new mine near MassillOn, o., In
a new territory. The land drilled up con-
siSts OF 377 acres, but the corporation has
control of all the adjacent farms. Holes
have been drilled from 10 to 200 yards
apart ali over the tract, and in no case has
there been a failure TO find coal, the vein
being generally five feet thick, and more
frequently greater than this number.
The business men of Shenandoah, Pa,
200 strong, have completed the ~organiza-
ton OF an association to continue during
the miners strike as a financial auxiliary.
Ward committees have received pledges
of over $500, to be duplicated every two
weeks so long as needed.
The Mining Record, Osceo!a Mills, Pa,
says: Sterling mines are working every
day, but the mines are crowded with
men, the Turns being three cars TO the
doubles. All the mines in and around
Houtzdale, with few exceptions, are do
ing very poor Mt present. Phillipshurg
region is not working near full time, and
all the mines are crowded with men.
OSceolo region is working about three
quarter time at present. The mines are
crowded with men, and more coming
every day. This would be q good place
to keep away from until the men that are
DOW here have got work. Please leave
yOar friends i'll the old country until you
have work for yourself.
The Whitehouse Camel Coal Company,
capital stock 800, 5000, has been incor-
pOrated by Jay II. Northrup and NJ. p.
Goble, of Ashland, Ky. The object is to
develop mineral lands, bore for oil and
gas, &c.
The coal lands in the vicinity of Cres-
son, Pa, are about being developed. A
shaft has beeu sunk to the depth OF about
fifteen feet and fair Roadway is being daily
made. The shaft is located about Il mile
east o CreSSOn station.
Anthracite tonnage for September,
3,137, 65l tons; increase over same month
of last G 2il, lS2. For the nine months
of 1887, %, O6l, 45O, against 20, $50, 1877
tons for the same period last year. Stock
on October 1st. 3O4, 74S tons; stock Octo-
Der lat, 1856, 51S,306 tons.
A corps of surveyors in the employ of
the Central Pacific Railroad has completed
the preliminary surveys for the new road
from the mines along the Carbon river, in
Washington Territory, 10 the main stem of
the Northern Pacific. This road, when
completed, will enable the Central Pacific
to snip double the quantity of coal from
Tacoma 10 San Francisco it now does.
The most recently constructed pier for
the loading OF coal on the Atlantic sea-
board is that which will be known in the
future as Fort Liberty. 1t has been given
this title because it is within gunshOt of
the widely-knOwn Statue of Liberty in
New York harbor. The property is owned
by the North River Coal and Wharf Com
plny. 1t is 1875 feet long and 40 wide,
and has 32 pockets of 100 tons each.
In 1866 there were 279 fatalities in the
anthracite mines Of Pennsylvania, and "A
in the bituminOus mines. Gas explosions
killed 2l; sufTOcatjon by gas, s. explosions
of blasting materials and blasts, %; falls
of roof and sides, u; machinery ana mine
cars, 80; miscellaneous, 50 In the British
mines for the same year 953 persons were
killed, the percentage Of the several causes
being about the same as III Pennsylvania
mines.
The Inter State Commerce Commission
has received Il complaint from the Ale
gheny Coal Producers Association, Of
Rimer, Pa. against the Allegheny Valley
RAILROAD Co, in which il is alleged that
the railroad company has increased the rate
of coal 10 Buffalo from 50 cents to 81. 10
per ton. with tine result of stopping ship
ments by the members of the association,
while rates from other points equally d s.
tant from Butiolo are kept at the lowest
named figure.